Presenters:The following faculty will will discuss and show examples of how they are using Canvas to create assignments and collect student work. Topics will include project-based work, online discussions, quizzes, and weekly reflections.

If you would like to lay out a magazine, a poster, a pamphlet, or even a book, this workshop will help you to get started. This hands-on session will cover basic print layout and design using Adobe InDesign. This workshop is open to all students, faculty, and staff. Please RSVP at http://it.emerson.edu/workshops

The Spring 2014 Internship Fair is your opportunity to network with up to 50 employers who are seeking summer and/or fall interns in a variety of fields. Stop by anytime between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. to explore and learn more about internship opportunities.

Don't forget to research the employers that you are interested in and inform them what you know about their companies, practice your introduction, and use professional dress to impress! Have your resume reviewed by a Career Services Counselor well in advance of the event. Take advantage of the Internship Fair Preparation Workshops to present yourself professionally! We will have workshops on 2/18 (and for Graduate Students: 2/19, 2/20, 2/21 and 2/24).

Examining the contemporary discourse on happiness through the lens of governmentality theory, Happiness as Enterprise, An Essay on Neoliberal Life invites readers to consider the new discourse on happiness and its relation to contemporary formations of power. In settings as diverse as college education, business, military training, family, and financial planning, happiness has appeared as the object of a new technology of emotional selfoptimization.

As such, happiness has come to define a new mentality of self-government — or a "governmentality" as the concept is developed in the work of Michel Foucault — one that Sam Binkley demonstrates is aligned closely with economic neoliberalism. At the center of this development is the expanding influence of "positive psychology," which places the concern with happiness in a new position of professional respectability, while opening it to institutional applications.

A screening of Granik's first documentary feature Stray Dog, accompanied by a discussion:

Ron "Stray Dog" Hall participates in and reflects upon warrior culture. Like thousands of combat veterans, he has two things that anchor him: small dogs and big bikes. The motorcycles provide the thrill, camaraderie, and sense of mission that many veterans continue to crave throughout their lives. The small dogs embody an oath to care and protect a fellow being unconditionally and completely, and provide a solace that many veterans report they cannot live without.

We land in Stray Dog's world and the images accrue. We experience the restlessness of ex-warriors, hurtling down America's highways, staving off specters of post-traumatic stress and other emotional snares. He tries to make peace with what he can't change, and weathers the incomprehension of those who have never been to war.

Debra Granik is the Academy Award nominated director and co-writer of Winter's Bone, which was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture, and won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Granik and co-writer Anne Rosellini were Oscar nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. Her first feature film, Down to the Bone won Granik the Best Director prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Stray Dog is Granik's first documentary feature.